Tannington is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

in eastern England. Located around ten miles south-east of

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, in 2005 its population was 110. At the 2011 Census the population had fallen below 100, and not therefore being maintained on this site was included in the civil parish of

Brundish Brundish is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. The village is south-east of Stradbroke and north of Dennington in the Mid Suffolk district. The B1118 road runs through the village, which had a population at the 2001 c ...

History

World War II bomber incident

Late in the afternoon of 10 October 1943, an American

B-17 Flying Fortress The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Relatively fast and high-flying for a bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater ...

, serial number 42-3506 nicknamed '' Sir Baboon McGoon'', ran out of fuel and made a

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in a soft and muddy sugar beet field in the village of Tannington. Efforts of a mobile recovery crew to repair the aircraft, and the aircraft's return to service, were documented in ''

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'' magazine.Popular Science magazine, archive viewer, June 1944 issue, retrieved 8 June 2012 fro
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The aircraft was lost for good when it

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into the North Sea on 29 March 1944, while returning from a bombardment mission over Brunswick, Germany. The ''Popular Science'' article about the belly landing in Tannington appeared two months later, in the June 1944 issue.

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